| A plan only a carrier in Sprints position would allow.... This is less innovative and more a desperate act by sprint to stay in business. Cutting revenue on high expense wireless is like drinking saltwater to stay hydrated.
Something more financially sound carriers like ATT and Verizon would have no interest in. |
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csnyder
join:2007-09-10
Grand Rapids, MI | This isn't a Sprint venture - it's another company (TUCOWS - remember them?) leasing their network. |
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said by JasonOD :This is less innovative and more a desperate act by sprint to stay in business. Cutting revenue on high expense wireless is like drinking saltwater to stay hydrated.
Something more financially sound carriers like ATT and Verizon would have no interest in.
AT&T and Verizon have no interest in it because their investors would never allow a competing service to be on the same lines as them, with that competing service undercutting everything the carrier has done over the last 5 years to make sure everyone has everything they dont need, and that they can fee you to death and there is nothing you can do about it. |
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| Not enough details There are plenty of cheap pay-to-go MVNOs that have true "by the minute" billing, Page Plus on Verizon network, or PlatinumTel on Sprint. Both of those are very cheap and in theory better than "bucket plans" because you get billed by what you actually use down to the minute/text/megabyte of data instead of buckets. The problem with Page Plus is that their data is very expensive, the problem with PlatinumTel is that you cannot Bring Your Own Device.
The success of this new service will be mostly determined by the 1) plan prices, obviously and 2) BYOD policy. If both of these are favorable, price comparable to PlatinumTel and BYOD is available, then this is going to be a real winner, otherwise it's going to be just another MVNO.
Bottom line is, this story will need a follow up when details are actually available. |
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 dib22
join:2002-01-27
Kansas City, MO | I remember sprint had a plan JUST like this for a while... Consumer reports praised it for being a great plan that gave consumers affordable service, so of course Sprint killed it 1 year later so they could get the sweet juicy overages  |
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Cogdis
join:2007-03-26
Floral Park, NY | reply to Chubbysumo
Re: A plan only a carrier in Sprints position would allow.... said by Chubbysumo:said by JasonOD :This is less innovative and more a desperate act by sprint to stay in business. Cutting revenue on high expense wireless is like drinking saltwater to stay hydrated.
Something more financially sound carriers like ATT and Verizon would have no interest in.
AT&T and Verizon have no interest in it because their investors would never allow a competing service to be on the same lines as them, with that competing service undercutting everything the carrier has done over the last 5 years to make sure everyone has everything they dont need, and that they can fee you to death and there is nothing you can do about it. Both AT&T and Verizon have multiple MVNO's using their networks as well. |
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| Screw American wireless The fact that none of the second tier carriers in my area want to allow me to bring my own device is a real problem.
Being forced to use the equivalent of several year old technology (the best phone I've seen for a boost/virgin/metropcs/whatever carrier was still not as good as an almost two year old HTC Evo 4g) because these companies will only allow their own phones on their network instead of provisioning any phone a customer brings is crap.
I'd much rather pay full price for a bleeding edge android phone and use it on a ~$30/month carrier since I hardly use any voice minutes, but I don't know of any carriers in my area that can help me make it happen. |
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join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | Where is the price list for their tiers? On their web site I can't find anything that says what tiers they have and what it costs. Until that is available, you can't really evaluate if this service will be worth it or not. |
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Cogdis
join:2007-03-26
Floral Park, NY | reply to dib22
Re: I remember sprint had a plan JUST like this for a while... The fair and flexible plan. I still have it for a couple of lines on my account. Unfortunately I can't use it for my own line because smart phones require "everything data" plans now. |
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Re: Not enough details I want a plan similar to t-mobile et. al. where you purchase $x of credit, and it has a 90 day - 1 year expiration, which can be renewed by topping off.
They have this for voice, I want this for data.
Sell me 2GB of data and let me use it over the next 90-365 days. I don't use enough data to require 2GB every month on a revolving basis. |
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Re: A plan only a carrier in Sprints position would allow.... But both Ma Bell and Big Red keep their MVNOs locked down to sub-par offerings, especially on the data side...getting them lots of customers who would never pay for their expensive [contract] services otherwise. |
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Re: Not enough details You have to understand they [the monopolies] are not going to allow their core business cash cow to be neutered by an MVNO. Contract, postpaid service is still the vast, vast majority of their business. Hence why PagePlus has horrific data rates, for example. Verizon dictates that. |
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AT&T offers this on GoPhone, at $25 per 500MB block. You can have up to 1.5GB on hand and it costs just $5 to keep it active every 30 days (rollover). Still expensive compared to postpaid offerings but much better than some others. |
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| Sprint Free and Clear? Wasn't that how Sprint's Free and Clear plans used to work?
If you went beyond included minutes, you'd be bumped to next plan (essentially "buying" a block of 100 minutes for whatever was the cost, rather than having extraordinary 45c x each extra minute)
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Re: Not enough details Sweet, now just make that at least 60-90 days with the same $5 top off and we have a deal! |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | reply to bugabuga
Re: Sprint Free and Clear? It was called "Fair and Flexible", and yes, Sprint was the first to reverse course on punitive overage rates, not that they would ever get credit for doing so here. |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | Did Pigs Just Fly? So Karl, let me get this right:
Charging full price for phones, and charging in proportion to use, is now, "less evil" ? |
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Re: I remember sprint had a plan JUST like this for a while... said by Cogdis:The fair and flexible plan. I still have it for a couple of lines on my account. Unfortunately I can't use it for my own line because smart phones require "everything data" plans now.
That's one of the four reasons I don't have a not-so-smart phone. My wife and I have a voice plan that is more than enough for our combined needs. If Sprint would simply allow me to add data to one line, one obstacle to my having a phone with data would be removed.
Oh well... I save money, this way, so it's all good 
Jim |
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Re: Screw American wireless said by Angrychair:I'd much rather pay full price for a bleeding edge android phone and use it on a ~$30/month carrier since I hardly use any voice minutes, but I don't know of any carriers in my area that can help me make it happen.
T-Mobile just introduced $30 prepaid plan, you get 100 minutes and unlimited text data. Should be BYOD as well. I'm sure T-Mobile has good coverage in FL, so your wish is actually possible.
Or if you want unlimited minutes SimpleMobile (who is a T-Mobile reseller) has BYOD and unlimited everything for $40 a month, although as with any MVNO you do not have roaming.
Say what you want, but last couple of years have been a blessing for prepaid/MVNO crowd like me. |
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Re: Sprint Free and Clear? Ah yeah. It's been a while
Well, I suppose the final result will be the same
(heck, there were times when first incoming minute was free, and incoming texts were free too)
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